BIOGRAPHY
Sung Hoon Kim is the most popular Dancer & Choreographer in South Korea. He graduated from the Korean National University of Art with B.A and M.A in Dance Performance. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Laboratory Dance Company ‘LDP’ in Seoul, South Korea and started his choreographic works and, he was invited to join the Akram Kahn Company, London In 2009, and since then he has performing many world tour performances such as bahok(2009), vertical road(2011), itmoi(2013), Kaash(2014).
He teaches extensively, and has performed and choreographed for numerous venues and festivals around Korea and internationally. In 2005, He worked in collaboration with Music Composer, Prof. Eun Hea Park from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea and, He was invited to perform Dance of Cho-wol in Florida, USA. One of his works Position of body(2007) was invited in Venice Biennial Festival as 'The Youngest Choreographer'. ‘Rising Star Korea’ is a famous Dance Festival in Korea to present works of the Best Dancers who are working in Overseas. In this festival, Sung Hoon presented his own creative work We don’t believe in Hero which got a lot of attention and love by audiences. Also, one of his most popular and famous choreography, Black Comedy (2009), has been presented all over the world until today.
Sung Hoon was awarded a lot of competitions in Korea and, as a Choreographer, he won the Best Acting Performer Prize at 2009 in Korea. Every Choreographic works he created is very often invited in the worldwide receiving national and international recognition.
Finally, Sung Hoon has been visiting in New York City to meet various artists and have experience of dance field in NYC with grants by the Asian Cultural Council as the Best Artist.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
In his dance, natural movements coexist with the theatrics of contemporary dance. Choreographer and dancer Sung Hoon Kim has incorporated the dynamic and dramatic styles of contemporary dance with the wild and defiant energy of street/ salsa dance.
In this Workshop, he will bring out the emotions from each character through self-awareness and explore beyond the technical and physical movements. The dance movements will be created from our individuality and habits. What are our strengths? What are our limitations? Who are we? How are our emotions or feelings portrayed? These are the questions that will increase our capabilities as dancers as we learn to harness the energy inside our body. Our approach is to get closer to the public, touching the senses of our audience. Forget "formality" that's associated with dance and bridge the gap between you and your inner sense to find the habits & feelings what we didn't know existed.